Monday, May 18, 2009

trainwreckaliciously

adv. Commonly applied to would-be romances and entertainment products. Its origins are unknown; some speculate that the word originally referred to tragedy on the high seas.

Real citation: "Dinner at Millennium (thanks for the rec,@grubreport): delicious, AND seated next to trainwreckaliciously pretentious first date."(May 7, 2009, SarahDBunting, Twitter, http://twitter.com/SarahDBunting)

Made-up citation: "Thus far, my career in organ harvesting has been trainwreckaliciously bad. Talk about a rookie mistake: I grabbed a lung when I was looking for a spleen! Me and my mom had a long laugh about that one, after she regained consciousness."

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Mark Peters (better known as wordlust on Twitter) is a euphemism-collector for Visual Thesaurusand a blogger for Oxford University Press. Formerly, this blog was a collection of rare, raw, real words. Now it's the forever home for orphaned humor pieces and encore tweets.